Plant Spacings: Crucial for Calculating Production Costs, plus Road Pins vs Fence Posts & Making Jute Netting with String

It's Friday 11 April 2025 and another incredibly sunny day. Still no rain but hopefully it's coming next week.

I'll be updating you on what I've been sowing this week and the new sowing chart that I've made to help me remember when to sow the next batch (it's all about successional sowing this year). I discuss my morning feeling routine and how I work out which seedlings get to spend the day where, depending on the day's temperature and their stage of growth. I usually do this with a coffee (see photo on insta @henhillcutflowers) and I water them at this time too. 

I share my thoughts about plant spacings with reference to cut flowers and how I've worked this out. It's all in theory at the moment so I need to actually get on the plot and walk it out. Then there's a discussion about staking the cornflowers and how to get this right in 2025, using various options including metal fencing wire or string. It's all a learning curve and very much depends on the materials I have to hand on the plot and my soil conditions.

In this episode, join me for an update on what I've been doing this week.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ How to measure distances if you lose your tape measure 

✅ The seeds I've sown this week

✅ Why a seed sowing chart helps with successional sowing

✅ How I've worked out plant spacings for my cornflowers 

✅ Fence posts vs road pins 

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